If I were to write a book, I would not be able to make any money out of it without copyright protection, because as soon as I put it on sale, some big publishing house with a massive distribution network and the ability to print large quantities of books at low cost would wrap my book in a designer cover and sell it at a much lower price than I could afford.
My favorite is when guy catches his girl cheating on him with another guy...and then goes after (or at least gets mad at) the guy, with whom he had no "emotional contract", shall we say.
When a man chooses a partner, he chooses to invest a lot of energy into rearing her offspring. If, however, she is impregnated by another man, all that energy is wasted, from the point of view of his own genes, because the other man's genes are propogated. The woman, however, can still be used to propogate his genes. Overall, the best behaviour for your genes is to get furious at anyone who tries to mate with your woman, not with your woman.
Be realistic. China could probably hack into any wirelesss security standard that you will be allowed to use anyway, not to mention the NSA, or any other self respecting intelligence agency. If you're that important that China wants to spy on you, you shouldn't be using a wireless lan to transfer sensitive data.
why should they be required to provide a mirror of it?
They aren't - the GPL doesn't specify how the code must be made available. They simply have to make the source available somehow, and are entitled to charge the cost of providing it. I imagine pointing to a mirror would be sufficient, at least in practice, if not in theory. The point is to make sure that any changes they make are also distributed to anyone who wants them.
No. They are required to supply the source to all the GPLed software that they are distributing, and any of their own software which is linked against GPLed software (which is also therefore GPL). However, they are not required to allow people to view/distribute any proprietary code which doesn't fall into these categories. Since the OS images contain both GPLed and proprietary software, they are within their rights to prevent distribution. They are however required to provided the source of the GPLed stuff on the image seperately, on request, but this is probably not very interesting anyway
Why TiVo has a problem with this, but allows others to sell the same images for profit is beyond me
If they are allowing other sites to sell their images for a profit, presumably they are getting royalties, and would therefore want to encourage the growth of this market by stopping people doing it for free. Follow the money...
That's a increase of about 48 times of computing power and the app just loads 3 times that fast? Something has to be seriously wrong with this setup!
Startup times are affected more by disk access times than processor speed. Disk access times don't increase anywhere near as fast as processor clock frequencies.
Whatever is best for the end user will get used, and whatever is useless will die
The only downside is that it sometime takes a long time for the inferior fork to die. If half your customers go with one fork, and half go with the other, you have to support both. Although it's hard to tell, since the article doesn't contain any links (WTF?!?), maybe this is what he is worried about.
However, since forks are relatively rare, and forks of forks even rarer, and since most important software is standards based anyway, I don't see how this is a problem for 99.9% of projects.
but acts as a real one until the spam starts being sent
Yes, but if the spammer sends test emails alongside the spam, they won't get through, and he will know it's a spamhole. This system will likely work well until the spammers realise that it is being used, after which it will be easy for them to hack their way around it.
The X server itself may not be bloated, but the XFree86 source distribution certainly is. Everything from client libs to Xeyes are included in the build system, and working out how to configure it to only build the parts you need is not an easy task. Not to mention the amount of cruft you have to download. This is a shame, because there is no reason why it has to be like this, but clearly the XFree86 people aren't interested in the problem. If Xouvert can modularise it well like they plan, this will be a massive improvement in itself.
The cost of R&D and design of the chip is probably a drop in the bucket compared to building a chip fabrication plant
Yes, but this is only true for companies who do full custom designs and do their own fabrication. There are plenty of ASIC companies which will do everything from mask development to testing for you. There are also companies to which you can outsource manufacturing, if you really want to go the full custom route.
We begin with two equations from the first session of the course: Knowledge = power Time = money and combine them with an equation from the first law of thermodynamics: Power = work/time Whence: Money = time = work/power = work/knowledge Ergo (or hence if you haven't the benefit of a classical education):
The less you know the more you will be paid.
Managers know much less than engineers.
So managers are much better paid than engineers.
Best move from engineering into management (and thousands do).
The metre scale is just as artificial. It was invented during the reign of Napoleon, and is a subdivision of the distance between the North Pole and Paris. Naughtical miles are slightly better, being equivalent to the distance travelled on the Earths surface equivalent to 1' of latitude/longitude (if I remember correctly), but then the degree/minute measurement is fairly arbitrary.
If anyone wants to make this even more ridiculous, the linuxgazette.org domain name is still up for grabs. It would be funny to see what the forkers think of their site being forked.
I find it incredible that the legitimacy of file sharing networks is called into question - even by non-technical people. Isn't there a slight clue in the name - "file sharing". How can file sharing in itself be called bad? Isn't the WWW a file sharing network? This is a true triumph of propaganda over common sense.
What the parent was pointing out is the meaning of words change over time - if 90% of people understand "hacker" as meaning someone who illegally breaks into computer systems, then it is not incorrect to use the word in this sense, even if those 90% of people have been brainwashed by the media.
Try going to the grimiest bar in your part of the world, find a random drunken psycho, and tell him he looks gay. Then try to explain that "gay" means "happy" and see what happens.
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If I were to write a book, I would not be able to make any money out of it without copyright protection, because as soon as I put it on sale, some big publishing house with a massive distribution network and the ability to print large quantities of books at low cost would wrap my book in a designer cover and sell it at a much lower price than I could afford.
When a man chooses a partner, he chooses to invest a lot of energy into rearing her offspring. If, however, she is impregnated by another man, all that energy is wasted, from the point of view of his own genes, because the other man's genes are propogated. The woman, however, can still be used to propogate his genes. Overall, the best behaviour for your genes is to get furious at anyone who tries to mate with your woman, not with your woman.
Be realistic. China could probably hack into any wirelesss security standard that you will be allowed to use anyway, not to mention the NSA, or any other self respecting intelligence agency. If you're that important that China wants to spy on you, you shouldn't be using a wireless lan to transfer sensitive data.
Yeah, and 256 MB isn't nearly enough for a jogging run if your being chased by heavily armed RIAA enforcers.
They aren't - the GPL doesn't specify how the code must be made available. They simply have to make the source available somehow, and are entitled to charge the cost of providing it. I imagine pointing to a mirror would be sufficient, at least in practice, if not in theory. The point is to make sure that any changes they make are also distributed to anyone who wants them.
No. They are required to supply the source to all the GPLed software that they are distributing, and any of their own software which is linked against GPLed software (which is also therefore GPL). However, they are not required to allow people to view/distribute any proprietary code which doesn't fall into these categories. Since the OS images contain both GPLed and proprietary software, they are within their rights to prevent distribution. They are however required to provided the source of the GPLed stuff on the image seperately, on request, but this is probably not very interesting anyway
If they are allowing other sites to sell their images for a profit, presumably they are getting royalties, and would therefore want to encourage the growth of this market by stopping people doing it for free. Follow the money...
Startup times are affected more by disk access times than processor speed. Disk access times don't increase anywhere near as fast as processor clock frequencies.
With windows all you see is blue
The only downside is that it sometime takes a long time for the inferior fork to die. If half your customers go with one fork, and half go with the other, you have to support both. Although it's hard to tell, since the article doesn't contain any links (WTF?!?), maybe this is what he is worried about.
However, since forks are relatively rare, and forks of forks even rarer, and since most important software is standards based anyway, I don't see how this is a problem for 99.9% of projects.
Yes, but if the spammer sends test emails alongside the spam, they won't get through, and he will know it's a spamhole. This system will likely work well until the spammers realise that it is being used, after which it will be easy for them to hack their way around it.
The X server itself may not be bloated, but the XFree86 source distribution certainly is. Everything from client libs to Xeyes are included in the build system, and working out how to configure it to only build the parts you need is not an easy task. Not to mention the amount of cruft you have to download. This is a shame, because there is no reason why it has to be like this, but clearly the XFree86 people aren't interested in the problem. If Xouvert can modularise it well like they plan, this will be a massive improvement in itself.
...and if you really need a geekier solution, have him/her enter the temperature into a text file which you can read remotely over the web.
Yes, but this is only true for companies who do full custom designs and do their own fabrication. There are plenty of ASIC companies which will do everything from mask development to testing for you. There are also companies to which you can outsource manufacturing, if you really want to go the full custom route.
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The death penalty is carried out by firing squad in Nigeria. You do get to watch, though, if you're into that sort of thing.
Here it is coded in Whitespace:
The metre scale is just as artificial. It was invented during the reign of Napoleon, and is a subdivision of the distance between the North Pole and Paris. Naughtical miles are slightly better, being equivalent to the distance travelled on the Earths surface equivalent to 1' of latitude/longitude (if I remember correctly), but then the degree/minute measurement is fairly arbitrary.
If anyone wants to make this even more ridiculous, the linuxgazette.org domain name is still up for grabs. It would be funny to see what the forkers think of their site being forked.
They're won't be billions and billions of people on the planet if there's not enough food to feed them all.
I find it incredible that the legitimacy of file sharing networks is called into question - even by non-technical people. Isn't there a slight clue in the name - "file sharing". How can file sharing in itself be called bad? Isn't the WWW a file sharing network? This is a true triumph of propaganda over common sense.
You have to wonder if a russian rocket in outer space is the safest place for a "brewer's yeast experiment".
(apologies to russian readers for blatent stereotyping ;-)
It looks like unix will be suffering from the same fate as the *BSDs
Try going to the grimiest bar in your part of the world, find a random drunken psycho, and tell him he looks gay. Then try to explain that "gay" means "happy" and see what happens.